Recipients of the Readers Choice Award, now in it's 23rd year, have been selected from results via an online ballot covering over 400 products and services across 36 categories; respondents are sourced from the magazine's extensive subscriber base. Michael Domingo, Editor in Chief of Visual Studio Magazine indicated that 2016 was "... an interesting year for solution builders, one that has seen some incredible innovation...". This statement also reflects the significant usability and functionality developments featured in the recent release of Enterprise Architect Version 13.

"The rollout of Enterprise Architect 13 provides major usability updates with the introduction of the all new Ribbon Interface, facilitating increased productivity via a richer and more visually compelling user experience," remarked Sparx COO, Tom O'Reilly. "Version 13 also delivers a multitude of functionality elements, including Kanban diagrams, Time Aware Modeling and Cloud based repository deployment, offering increased collaboration between distributed project team members."

In the recent years, Sparx Systems has also received recognition from numerous organizations operating in domains such as Enterprise Architecture, Application Lifecycle Management, Productivity Solutions and Software Development. The Enterprise Architect user base of nearly 400,000, are supported by a network of over 380 partner companies providing sales, training and consultancy services world-wide. Sparx Systems also provides a significant collection of free resources, including a comprehensive 4,000+ page online User Guide, Guide Books, extensive library of Webinars, plus an active technical Forum and User Community website.

Visit www.sparxsystems.com for more information about Enterprise Architect 13 or to download a free, fully functional 30 day trial.

In the past decade the Sparx user-base has grown from 30,000 to almost 400,000 licensed users worldwide. Sparx Systems Enterprise Architect provides robust support for team-wide collaboration, and can scale up from single-user deployment to teams with hundreds of local and remote collaborators. Sparx software is price competitive even when deployed across the entire development team. First developed in 1998, the Sparx Systems' Enterprise Architect modeling platform was commercially released in 2000, and has enjoyed more than 15 years of continuous development and growth.